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<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://goddard.edu/sites/default/files/SAND%20logo.jpeg" title="A report from Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference" class="colorbox" rel="gallery-1263"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://goddard.edu/sites/default/files/SAND%20logo.jpeg" width="225" height="225" alt="" title="" /></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://goddard.edu/sites/default/files/Maurizio%20and%20Zaya.jpeg" title="A report from Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference" class="colorbox" rel="gallery-1263"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://goddard.edu/sites/default/files/Maurizio%20and%20Zaya.jpeg" width="269" height="187" alt="" title="" /></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://goddard.edu/sites/default/files/Cosmic%20Uruboros.jpeg" title="A report from Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference" class="colorbox" rel="gallery-1263"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://goddard.edu/sites/default/files/Cosmic%20Uruboros.jpeg" width="225" height="225" alt="" title="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-goddard-blog field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">BA in Individualized Studies Blog</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-title-field field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A report from Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="font-size:12px;">The fourth annual <a href="http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/" target="_blank">Science and Nonduality (SAND)<em> </em></a>conference took place in San Rafael, California in late October, and I had the good fortune to attend for the second year in a row. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">In its magnificent interdisciplinarity, the event had some of the flavor of an IBA residency, with presentations by cosmologists, therapists, Vedantists, neurobiologists, Buddhists, quantum theorists, artists, Christian mystics, parapsychologists, Sufis, philosophers, and those who simply describe themselves as non-dualists, in attendance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">The organizers, the Italian couple Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, who formerly made documentary films, now bring their Mediterranean flair to these unique conferences, creating an atmosphere in which dialogue flourishes and arguments are rare. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Attendance has been growing, with over 600 attendees this year, so that even such an esoteric title as my <em>Deflating Infinity by Inverting Set Theory</em> attracted over 30 people, including IBA student Colin Morgan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Among the many events which I found deeply enlightening were the linked talks, "Consciousness of the Cosmos" by the cosmologist and dark energy theorist Joel Primack, and "Cosmic Consciousness in the Real World" by the lawyer and scholar of science and religion Nancy Ellen Abrams. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;">At the center of their presentations was the <em>Cosmic Uruboros</em>, which depicts the entire range of sizes, from the diameter of the visible universe, to the smallest size that quantum science allows, brought full circle by the not yet achieved grand unified theory (</span><span style="font-size:12px;">GUT</span><span style="font-size:12px;">). Note the central position of humanity. The gist of their message, which ended with the slogan <em>Think Cosmic, Act Global, Eat Local</em>, can be found in their TED talk.</span></p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:25 +0000Newcomb Greenleaf1263 at http://goddard.eduhttp://goddard.edu/goddard-blogs/ba-individualized-studies-blog/report-science-and-nonduality-sand-conference#comments